A federal agency supports a plan to sell New York’s Plum Island, home to the country’s only laboratory that studies infectious animal diseases that could affect the livestock industry, according to a draft report by the agency. The General Services ...

The federal government still underestimates the risk of a planned biosecurity lab in Kansas releasing a dangerous animal disease, and an assessment earlier this year suggesting minimal danger is seriously flawed, an independent report said Friday. The report from the ...

Long Island will get $291 million for road projects for the coming fiscal year, an 82 percent jump from the $160 million allotted the region a year ago. The money for road and bridge work in Nassau and Suffolk counties ...

President Barack Obama, in his federal spending plan unveiled Monday, recommended that no additional funding be allocated for construction of a new biosecurity lab in Kansas and said the Department of Homeland Security will reassess the project’s viability. The budget ...

Despite leaving office in two and a half weeks, Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy apparently isn’t throwing in the towel just yet. Levy’s latest quest has him calling on Suffolk and Nassau officials to break away from the New York ...